Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard campus would hurt both students and workers. Students would be forced to pay higher tuition bills to support higher union wages, and would be at the mercy of the union if a strike or walkout were ever called. Union negotiations with management would restrict possiblities for individuals to distinguish themselves, so a union would hurt workers too. Employee efficiency would drop once union wage scales lessened the relationship between performance...
...skins are careful to distinguish themselves from pseudo-skins or "trendoids" or "catalog kids." "A `trendoid' is someone who goes out and buys a $175 leather jacket and then puts studs in it," Chris explains...
What is now called the horse cavalry, to distinguish it from the armored cavalry of tanks and jeeps that replaced it, was phased out of the U.S. Army slowly, over a period of years that began in the early '40s and officially ended in 1950. But the end had begun much earlier. General George S. Patton, the most flamboyant cavalryman since Custer, had commanded tanks in World War I. And, of course, 1950 was not really the end. There were too many memories...
...older brother's narration, however, falls short. Vilmure, unable to create a distinct voice for the disturbed teenager, relies on interspersed, italicized flashbacks to distinguish the older brother's words. But Vilmure's struggle to give a voice to the illiterate older brother is admirable, speech being his only way of communicating with the world...
Local voters have managed for many years to distinguish between genial, snowy-haired Walter J. Sullivan Jr., and David E. Sullivan, an outspoken advocate of rent control and member of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association...